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Key to Symbols

A or AC The Dickinson Collection, Amherst College Library, Special Collections The numbers on the manuscripts at Amherst College were assigned by Jay Leyda, who arranged and described the materials while they were housed in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., in 1957. Leyda assigned catalog numbers first to what he understood to constitute manuscript volumes (80-95), then to what he understood to be unbound poems and poem fragments (96-540), and, finally, to those documents he considered letters, drafts, and prose fragments (541-1012). The arrangement within each correspondence is intended by Leyda to be chronological.

BPL Higg The Thomas Wentworth Higginson Papers, Galatea Collection, Boston Public Library

H The Dickinson Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University Library

Jones Jones Library, Inc., Amherst, Mass.


Symbols Used to Identify Editions

Letters (1958) The Letters of Emily Dickinson. 3 vols. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson, with Theodora Ward. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1958.

MB (1981) The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. 2 vols. Edited by R. W. Franklin. abbreviation F stands for Fascicle and the abbreviation S stands for Set.

Poems (1955) The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts. 3 vols. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1955.

Poems (1998) The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition. 3 vols. Edited by R. W. Franklin. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1998.

YH (1960) The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson. 2 vols. By Jay Leyda. New Haven: Yale UP, 1960.


Primary Sources

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---. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: A Variorum. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap of Harvard UP,1998.

Higginson, Thomas W. "A Letter to a Young Contributor." Atlantic Monthly 9 (1862): 401-11.

Howe, Julia Ward. "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Atlantic Monthly 9 (1862): 145.

Johnson, Thomas ed. The Letters of Emily Dickinson. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap of Harvard UP, 1958.

"The Southern Cross." Atlantic Monthly 9 (1862): 337-38.

Stearns, William Augustus. Adjutant Stearns. Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1862.


Secondary Sources

Capps, Jack. Emily Dickinson’s Reading: 1836-1886. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1966.

Crumbley, Paul. Inflections of the Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson. Lexington, Kentucky: The UP of Kentucky, 1997.

Dandurand, Karen. "New Dickinson Civil War Publications." American Literature 56 (1984): 17-27.

Doriani, Beth Mclay. Emily Dickinson: Daughter of Prophecey. Amherst: U of Mass Press, 1996.

Eberwein, Jane Donahue, Ed. An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. West Port, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998. 20

Ford, Thomas. "Emily Dickinson and the Civil War." University Review 31 (1965): 199-203.

Fuss, Diana. "Interior Chambers: The Emily Dickinson Homestead." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 10.3 (1998): 2-46.

Hoffman, Tyler. "Emily Dickinson and the Limit of War." The Emily Dickinson Journal 3 (1994): 1-18.

Howe, Susan. My Emily Dickinson. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1985.

Lease, Benjamin. Emily Dickinson’s Readings of Men and Books. London: McMillan, 1990.

Leyda, Jay. The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson. 2 vols. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1960.

Lundin, Roger. Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. Cambridge: W.B. Eerdman’s, 1998.

Marcellin, Leigh-Anne Urbanowicz. "Emily Dickinson’s Civil War Poetry." The Emily Dickinson Journal 5 (1996): 107-112.

---. "'Singing off the Charnel Steps': Soldiers and Mourners in Emily Dickinson's War Poetry." The Emily Dickinson International Journal 10.2 (2000): 64-74.

Moorhead, James. American Apocalypse. New Haven: Yale UP, 1978.

Oberhaus, Dorothy Huff. Emily Dickinson's Fascicles: Method and Meaning. Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.

St. Armand, Barton Levi. Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul’s Society. NY: Cambridge UP, 1984.

Sewall, Richard. The Life of Emily Dickinson. 2 vols. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1974.

Wolosky, Shira. Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War. New Haven: Yale UP, 1984.

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